Managed Services Marketing Report

Taking the plunge into the managed service market. Irrespective of all the issues around cloud, security and state actor data access in the past year, the managed services and hosted cloud services market is mushrooming, regardless of the geography you’re in.

This report looks at MSPs that have already made the transition to a managed services model, what lessons they have learned, and what they would do differently if they had the chance again. It has also asked them what advice they would give those starting out on the MSP journey.

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Governance Moves Big Data from Hype to Confidence

Organizations that want to focus on analyzing data are instead spending their time and resources finding data and defending their analysis, according to a 2014 study conducted by Unisphere Research and sponsored by IBM. The study found that while the percentage of organizations with big data projects in production was expected to triple within 18 months, business managers have less confidence in data from new sources than in traditional, structured data from within the enterprise.

Despite interest in cloud, mobile and other technologies, organizations face obstacles to innovation. Review the survey results to learn what is keeping companies from launching initiatives based on new technologies and how information governance initiatives are faring when they compete with other priorities for scarce resources.

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Combat File Sharing Risk with WAFS™ by Globalscape

To optimize business productivity and reduce costs when collaborating over distances, IT organizations need to give users high-performance, easy-to-use methods for document collaboration, as if they were working with local colleagues. In addition, to protect business interests, they need to ensure that these solutions support centralized management and backup, prevent versioning or integrity errors, and do not impede network traffic.

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Four Steps to Protect Businesses from the Effects of Downtime

Downtime happens and often at the worst time possible. Organizations experiencing downtime face direct and indirect costs from the loss of critical systems. This whitepaper discusses a Globalscape survey of 283 IT professionals and end users revealing the frequency of unplanned downtime, the effects on organizations, including average costs, and what IT administrators can do to minimize core system failure.

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Accelerate Market Responsiveness With Forrester’s Holistic Cloud Strategy

Cloud computing has reached an inflection point for enterprises — a comprehensive strategy for broad adoption and use is now required. Until now, most companies had adopted public cloud services in an ad hoc fashion, driven mostly by business leaders and developers creating new customer-facing systems that corporate IT could not deliver quickly enough. These initial experiences prove that cloud applications, platforms, and business services are now ready to be strategic resources in your business technology portfolio. Only CIOs can help the business strike the right balance between the agility, efficiency, security, compliance, and integration that’s required for a successful cloud strategy. This report describes how to execute an enterprise cloud strategy from vision to implementation to ongoing optimization.
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Security for Virtualization Getting the Balance Right

Virtualization promises cost savings, improved productivity, and the ability to transform your business. But too often security can either detract from the performance gains that virtualization promises, or just not give you the protection you need. Getting the balance right is critical.

Download Kaspersky Lab’s Security for Virtualization: Getting the Balance Right to answer your most pressing questions:

• What security options are available for a virtual environment?
• How can the wrong security hurt your virtualization project?
• What are the benefits of choosing the right protection?

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Practical Guide to IT Security Breach Prevention Part II: Reducing Mobile, Web, and Social Media Risks

A staggering 1/3 of businesses have experienced lost or stolen staff mobile devices and, of those, ¼ have lost data as a result. With users connecting to unsecured public networks and social media platforms on both company-owned and personal devices, sensitive data can now be accessed--and lost--from more endpoints than ever before.

Kaspersky Lab has created a set of IT & Data Security Breach Prevention Practical Guides to simplify this seemingly daunting task. Download Part II: Reducing Mobile, Web, and Social Media Risks to learn:

• How to protect employees wherever they’re working
• How to close the door to mobile malware
• How to balance freedom and control with employee internet

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Practical Guide to IT Security Breach Prevention Part I: Reducing Employee and Application Risks

Did you know 59% of people fail to store their passwords securely? With users connecting to unsecured public networks and running multiple applications from both company and personal devices, sensitive corporate data is more vulnerable than ever before. For your security policies to be effective, they need to bring all devices and applications under IT control and regulate user behavior.

Kaspersky Lab has created a set of IT & Data Security Breach Prevention Practical Guides to simplify this seemingly daunting task. Download Part I: Reducing Employee and Application Risks to read:

• Practical tips for setting password policies
• Advice to help employees avoid falling for phishing schemes
• Best practices for setting up automatic application patches and updates

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Virtualization Security Options: Choose Wisely

For virtualization security, there’s no one size fits all solution…and trying to fit your organization’s specific needs into the wrong security product can be a costly mistake. Do you know how to pick the right option for your organization?

A new whitepaper from Kaspersky Lab, Virtualization Security Options: Choose Wisely, outlines:

• Different virtualization security solution options--conventional agent-based; agentless; and Light Agent

• Possible scenarios for aligning the right security approach to your organization’s virtual environment

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Top 10 Tips for Educating Employees about Cybersecurity

Do you know the most common risk factor for corporate cybercrime? Employees. Download Kaspersky Lab’s Top 10 Tips for Educating Employees about Cybersecurity to learn:

• Why and how to develop an effective security policy
• Examples of common threats to employees and your business
• Tools to reduce risk and cybercrime

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Accelerate IT Operations with Cloud

Today’s CIOs are in a challenging situation: according to IDC, up to 70% of their IT budget is spent on systems maintenance and operations, yet business leaders across the enterprise are continuously bringing requests for new and more competitive systems and improved functionality.
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Video Cloud Helps Puma Drive Customer Engagement Across Every Screen

PUMA produces and publishes a wide range of video content around the world to support its products but also to bring customers on a journey.

While PUMA is known for its cutting-edge products, its brand really comes alive through the context that the company puts the products in and the lifestyle that the brand portrays. PUMA looks to video as an opportunity for engagement and a way to direct customers to a cadence-specific, multiscreen experience.

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Brightcove Exact-Target

Salesforce ExactTarget Marketing Cloud, a digital marketing company, adopted Brightcove’s Video Cloud to manage the development and publication of video content to its Web site through a custom video portal to increase user engagement and increase the amount of time users spend learning about the brand. Nucleus found that using Brightcove enabled ExactTarget Marketing Cloud to better leverage its online video presence to increase its engagement with users and more effectively manage its digital brand.
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